by [Mark Roseman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=434003919]

''More great business news from Scriptics. There were also several threads on development models for the overall community that are worth a read. Be sure to check out Paul Duffin's "stubs" mechanism noted below. Not online yet, but Usenix members should look for the January special issue of ;login: containing several Tcl articles (thanks Peter Salus!). What do you mean, not a member? Join!''

   * John Ousterhout reports that Scriptics has closed a second round of financing, and brought in Linda Giampa as VP Sales. Plans are for a doubling of staff by this summer (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=432194817])
   * Here is one of the threads discussing how the Tcl community is (and should be) operating, with respect to extensions (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/431742091])
   * Steffen Tregger announces version 1.1 of his pure Tcl, client-side FTP library (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=432278252])
   * Paul Duffin describes a new dynamic linking mechanism for Tcl that eliminates all the existing cross-platform difficulties. Extension writers in particular should take a look at this (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=432495024])
   * Victor Wagner describes one solution for printing a canvas to a postscript printer in several pages (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=432747472])
   * Bryan Oakley makes available a pure Tcl multicolumn listbox widget (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=432634609])
   * Jacob Levy suggests a way to get Java applications to run within a Tk window frame (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=433707611])